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“That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.”

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Evangeline Lilly, born on August 3, 1979, is a talented film actress renowned for her outstanding performances in popular movies such as 'Lost' and 'Ant-Man'. more

“I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's.”

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“I got called and was told, "We'd like you to do The Hobbit", which was my favorite of all of them when I was a kid - "And we want you to play a character that's not in the books", I gulped and hesitated, but then I went, "These guys know this world, and they represent this world so well, that I actually think they've earned the right to have a little play."”

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“You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.”

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“I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.”

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“If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.”

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“I don't know if any of you feel this way, but it's like eventually, you see a woman come on screen and you go, "Oh, thank God!" You just sort of need a break from all this testosterone, which happened, I think, in one of my films, The Hurt Locker. I was in it for like five minutes, and people were like, "You were in that movie!" And I was like, "Well, kind of." And they were like, "No, you were!" 'Cause they needed a woman!”

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“My character is different from all of the Elves you've met before, in that she's really young. And I keep telling journalists this because I've really focused on that in my performance. I'm trying to distinguish her from all of these incredibly sage and wise Elves that have lived for thousands of years.”

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“One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.”

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